Thomas Burns

Thomas Burns

Timezone

America/los Angeles

Reviews I've given (12)

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Quiescent Solun

New review

Played 11 sessions

WARNING: Quiescent Solun's games are so fun and addictive that they are the psychological equivalent of a Schedule 1 narcotic! I came into the game system skeptical as it is not normally my genre and had limited interest in the setting and rules. Quisecent does such a great job helping you make a character, explaining the story with amazing debriefings and diverse characters and is quite the impressive and challenging tactician to play against. They wont pull punches you can die due to tactical errors or bad luck. They do a great job on the technical of side of the game it borderline looks like a video game. They even helped me with my character for several hours to give suggestions and help make them fit that was outside the game session. They clearly love the setting and are a great story teller and I realize how much I loved their game when people are missing so we have to skip a week. I wish I could rate higher and I question some of the previous 5 stars in the past I gave to other GMs that now seem like 4 or 3 stars in comparison. Their price is very reasonable given how good and fun and how much work they put in their game. Most other GM's I have played with charge 50% more and I have about half as much fun.

Brent W avatar

Brent W

New review

Played 1 session

He is ok, his visuals were good and sound audio ques were likely the best part. I think he charges a bit much compared to other GM's I have enjoyed more though. He made some rules errors in the game, one may have prevented a early char death. Also used software for and old system which caused some issues with the meta resources. Still I know 97% of people make the star rating system useless because they 5 star or 1 star. So I am not saying he is terrible or anything I had a decent amount of fun but for what was charged I rate it as pretty average GM as I have had many games with GM's I am obsessed with that charge about half as much.

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Keilan

Played 9 sessions

I always join two campaigns and stay in the best one. I thought this game was the one I would drop at first just because of the few players and it not being a module but the GM surprised me. Kellan makes an open world that feels realistic and interesting and has lots to do even when simply traveling. Also makes exciting combat that is challenging and is not afraid to give long term negative consequences to players characters which surprised me.

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Lorekeeper Marian

Played 1 session

Overall was ok especially considering she has a much more reasonable price point then many GMs on here. Is ok fun not the funniest but was alright especially for a one shot. I think I had more issues with the system then the GM though was somewhat annoyed as I foresaw issues that might occur with the system. Watched those issues all happen then still after those onions got dismissed as ignorant and not a problem even after playing and watching all of them happen in front of me in the game we just played.

Colby avatar

Colby

Played 11 sessions

He is pretty good, especially at voices and overall narrative and making it make sense. Also he goes with the dice and what the players do which is great. He is a bit basic on the maps if he makes ones but he does a decent job running without them. Had a weird pointlessly long session zero for a very dark game that was completely unnecessary, but he didn't charge for it so I wont hold it to much against him. He occasionally makes errors but is good at correcting them and moving on. He has very good scientific and medical knowledge which is great for certain games and I have learned things in his games. I have had better GMs at lower price points, but he is by no means bad there are only a few GMs better and a lot that are worse.